Meet the guitar prodigy determined to keep playing despite his disability

Meet the guitar prodigy determined to keep playing despite his disability

Karim Albert Kook was born in Algiers, and raised in the south of France. A successful musician, he has opened concerts for BB King. His single “Barbès City Limits” – a song dedicated to the Parisian neighbourhood which mixes blues sounds with North African influences – has been a major hit in France. But for the first time, he’s agreed to talk about something other than his music: being disabled. Our reporters went to meet him.